Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	eternal_a	life_n	world_n	9,745	5	4.8408	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A46850	A visitation of love to the tender plants of Gods vineyard given forth by Henry Jackson ; also two generall epistles, given forth by William Caton.	Jackson, Henry, fl. 1662-1700.; Caton, William, 1636-1665.; Scostrop, Richard.	1664 (1664)	Wing J71; ESTC R11245	15,342	21

saying All this will I give thee if thou will 〈◊〉 down and worship me then safe will such be as dwell in the dayly ●rosse whereby the world is Crucified unto them and they unto the world that so the wicked one may have no part in them because they are passed from death unto life feeding of and being cloathed with that which is immortal and never perishes their life standing in an eternal root who have the Lord for their portion such cannot with Esau sell their birth-right for a messe of Pottage nor with Demas chuse this present world and forsake the way of truth for in them the temptation of the enemy hath no place they living in that immortal eternal principle of life which first convinced them of the evil of the world and the spirit of wickednesse in high places that accursed root which brings no● forth fruit unto God in which they were once branches but are now broken off that they might be ingrafted and for ever abide in another but whoever return into the old root and nature again will become as withered branches twice dead plucked up by the roots You therefore my dear friends that know a cutting off from the old root and a grafting again into the true Vine the light of life and word of the Lord God by which your hearts are in measure cleansed sanctified and purified from the pollutions of the world abide ye in that word for ever and goe not forth to look for or covet after another dispensation of life or glory nor seek not another Kingdome besides that which is revealed in the light which as ye abide in it an enterance will be administred into it from day to day and a growth into that state and condition which the high and lofty spirits which have left their habitations and are exalted above the root of life in themselves fall short of though they may have great swelling words of those things which they have not witnessed tasted nor handled of being vainly puft up in their fleshly minds and boast of things above their line or of the estate whereunto they have not attained But this I say unto you my dear friends goe not forth unto any of these exalted spirits in any of these glorious temptations which promiseth great things but there is a lye in that which may seem to be their right hand and therefore goe not forth but abide with the Lord for ever in the measure of his eternal truth which changeth not though many may turn from it nor waxeth not old but abideth the same for ever for there is your safety And as you abide in this and stand singly girt up in it here no deceitful spirits can come nor enter but they will be seen and judged whether they come from within or from without and whatever their covering or appearance may be yet being out of the vertue and savour of life their root and ground will be seen discovered and judged and so 〈◊〉 kept clean pure and holy in the eternal light and life of God in which 〈◊〉 live walk and will have dominion over all unclean and fallen spirit who are gone from their first principle and erred from the light of life which was sown in them And so you dear and tender plants of my heavenly Father abide ye in the true Vine the light of life which the Father hath sown in you that for ever ye may be rooted fixed and established in it and bring forth fruit to perfection that the root of bitternesse and every plant which your heavenly Father hath not planted may wholly be cut up and rooted out by the two-●●ged Sword the Axe of the Lord God that so the plant of righteousnesse may take root and grow up in you wholly to cover the earth as the waters covers the Sea that as you have born the Image of the earthly so now you may bear the Image of the heavenly and may become a praise unto the Lord in your generation a comfort strengthening and refreshing one unto another serving the Lord with a pure heart fervently and one another in love which is the end of all ministrations and the summe of the desire of our hearts concerning you and that for which our souls travels that the love of God may abound in you and the God of love peace and mercy be with you and establish your hearts in the everlasting Covenant of his light life and Salvation that in it ye may stand for ever and bear a living testimony for him and his truth upon earth And that so it may be with you all is the fervent Supplication of my soul in the spirit that giveth life by which the endeared visitation and salutation of my love first and last reacheth to you all Farewell From a Branch of Righteousnesse sprung forth of the Root of David known unto you in the eternal ground and root of life and amongst men by the name of HENRY JACKSON The first Copy of this was written in Warwick Goale in the latter end of the 10. Moneth 1663. Where I am a Prisoner for the testimony of Christ Jesus with my dear Brother before mentioned and many more of our dear friends in the truth For the dear Plants of God in the Southern Counties Essex Suffolk Norfolk Kent or elsewhere c. to be dispersed and sent amongst them as freedome and opertunity is Yarmouth common Gaol the fourth day of the eight moneth 1663. MY dearly beloved Friends who are sensible of the breathings of life in your selves and of the power of the everlasting Gospel of peace my unfeigned brotherly love flowes forth unto you from the immortall life which the God of my life hath manifested in my mortal body and with the salutation of this my reall love do I greet you all whom God hath called and chosen in these perillous times to be a peculiar people unto himself to shew forth his praise and not your own to declare his wonderous works and not your own to get honour and renown unto him in the earth and not unto your selves for he hath bought you with a price therefore are you not your own and he hath redeemed you from the corruptible by that which is incorruptible and therefore how should you continue in that which is corruptible to the satisfying your wills and the wills of corruptible men who are in the corruptible and in their unconverted estate fulfiling their own wills shewing forth their own praise declaring their own workes admireing and worshiping of them and getting honour and renown unto themselves in the earth honouring regarding and serving the Creatures more then the Creator even as we in the times of ignorance have done before the redemption before mentioned was witnessed or the election known which now many are made witnesses of glory be unto the most high for evermore Wherefore Friends answer ye the Lords end in calling of you and his end in purchasing of you and